Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Stuart Hamillis a retired American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFigure Skater
Date of Birth26 July 1956
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
gave glad life love music skating
I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.
incredible nurturing occurred olympic physically time took wonderful
I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment.
american-athlete continue hook loved marketing needed private tool
It was more of a marketing tool to hook you in. If you wanted to continue you needed private lessons. And I was hooked. I loved it.
cut took
It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.
I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.
easily people skating translate
People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
life thinks
One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.
flattering great thankful
I am thankful for this flattering and great honor.
thinking numbers wigs
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.
politician coaches
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
mom mother brother
My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
sports helping help-me
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
competition skating television
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
parent lots-of-money
My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.